The World According To Chris Brewer

Currently Playing on my iPod: “Lift Me Up (Mylo Remix)” by Moby.
From the CD single “Lift Me Up,” released on V2 Records in 2005.

Howdy cowpokes. Howdy cowgirls. Howdy cowchildren. Howdy everybody. I sure hope things are going well back in United States Land today because it’s sure going well for me over here.

Had a nice long conversation with Aftan earlier today, and got some work done as well. Also I downloaded a pretty nice remix of Kelly Clarkson’s track “Since U Been Gone.” It’s done by Jason Nevins. Unfortunately if you’ve heard one Nevins remix you’ve heard them all…but after a long time in between hearing them, they tend to sound pretty good.

Speaking of music, have you ever heard of the band Sigur Ros? These guys are awesome.

Here is the fashion faux pas for the week, presented by Christian Dior.

I love my Ducks, but using yellow gaffer’s tape to make the numbers on your uniforms borders on plain retarded and childish. We kicked the living crap out of Oregon State while wearing those uniforms, so I will hold most of my negative comments on that uniform and just say it looks like Phil Knight has been smoking reefer a bit too much recently. I love Nike, but as my friend (and Husky fan) Paul Symonds tells me, “they don’t seem to care what the general public thinks.” Right he is. Usually Husky fans aren’t right about anything but he nailed this one dead on.

Sports Illustrated is reporting that Michael Irvin has been busted for drug possession again. What a retard. Of course we knew where he got the money to buy all those fancy clothes he wears on ESPN as an analyst, but telling the Associated Press that the drugs found in his vehicle weren’t his — but were a friend’s — is a bit much. It’s kinda like me saying I don’t wear glasses when everyone can see in my pictures that I do. Again, another great Paul Symonds quote: “…’Oh I was just holding it in my lips for my friend…the smoke in my mouth was my friend’s too.’ He said it was from a longtime friend whom he’s trying to help recover from an addiction. So, the addict is trying to help the addict. Classic.” You gotta love Paully, ladies and gentlemen. He’s one of the folks that make me still want to go back to Washington state for an extended period of time. Great guy.

Okay, enough of sports. Today I would like to announce two new tracks I will begin production on. Instead of trying to produce a complete album, I figured it would be interesting to just go ahead and make new tracks as I get ideas for them and release them for a small fee on the Internet, or something like that.

Well, my idea for the first new track stems from an old song that my mom and dad used to have on a cassette tape. There was a contemporary Christian duo back in the day (I’m talking early 90s) who called themselves Two Hearts. They had this album out in 1992 called Stand Your Ground. It had this track on it called “Heaven Help Me,” and it contained a catchy and easy-to-loop piano melody. I figured I could use a few bars from the piano melody, create a wump-thumping bassline, put some 80s/house sounding drums in there along with some effects and I’ll have a winner. Don’t know what it’ll be called yet but it’ll be fun to work with while I’m over here.

The second track is somewhat of a tribute to Margaret Becker, one of the most defining female artists in Christian music. She had an older album in 1993 called Soul — my Mom loved that CD. There was one track on it that stuck out in my mind, called “The World I See In You.” The lyrics (which, coincidentally, have held great significance to me over the past few days) to the chorus say, “I believe in…I believe in…I believe in the world I see in you. I’d like to live in…I’d like to live in…I believe in the world I see in you.” What a great chorus. So simple yet so meaningful. I figure to put more of a rollicking dance beat to this one if possible. It’s gonna be tough though seeing as how the track already had a sound like someone was trying to rock hard but couldn’t quite do it.

So two great projects to work on while I am here. I will also be desigining the cover art and the virtual booklet as well. I’ve taught myself never to set projected dates for release as they always get pushed back.

Well, how goes it for you all? Provide me some feedback. You can either leave a comment here or email me at christopher.brewerATgmail.com. Just replace that AT with a @ of course. Peace and love from up above.